I understand that when you delete a file from your computer, it isn't really deleted. The 1st letter of the file is changed so that it is no longer visible, but any undelete tool can find it for you.
My question is this, what if a file is moved (not deleted) from the harddrive, to lets say, a floppy drive. As you know when you grab a file in Explorer, it asked if you want to copy or move the file to the new location. Isn't the file actually removed from the current location so that it is no longer on the drive (assuming you moved it to a removable disk)? Isn't it no longer on the harddrive at all? If this is true, then wouldn't it be just a simple matter of moving sensitive files to a different drive. Wouldn't this be a very safe way to make sure that sensitive files are not available to others who may not have the best intensions, when you sell your old computer or change harddrives?
What do you think?
obg
My question is this, what if a file is moved (not deleted) from the harddrive, to lets say, a floppy drive. As you know when you grab a file in Explorer, it asked if you want to copy or move the file to the new location. Isn't the file actually removed from the current location so that it is no longer on the drive (assuming you moved it to a removable disk)? Isn't it no longer on the harddrive at all? If this is true, then wouldn't it be just a simple matter of moving sensitive files to a different drive. Wouldn't this be a very safe way to make sure that sensitive files are not available to others who may not have the best intensions, when you sell your old computer or change harddrives?
What do you think?
obg